Performing punishment: society and the death penalty in contemporary anglophone plays
Abstract
The death penalty has been a law enforcement tactic in a number of societies and cultures since the dawn of humanity. So has the debate and controversy that surrounds it. Executions have been part of the machinery of the American and European judicial system for many centuries, with the USA being among the few countries in the western world that continue its practice till today as an institutionalized form of punishment sanctioned by law. Theatre enters this long lasting controversy and attempts to address the issue of the death penalty from a range of perspectives expressed through a number of plays mostly written during a two-year period (2013-2015) by American and European playwrights. My research will emphasize contemporary Anglophone plays within a transatlantic context of a comparative study of American, British and Irish plays in order to highlight the different perspectives and approaches to the issue of the death penalty, taking into consideration the various sociopolitical pa ...
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